Happy March!

IMPORTANT NEWS: Our Celebration of Learning will be on FRIDAY, MARCH 13TH at 11:00AM! 

We would LOVE for you to stop by our class and see everything we've learned as Water Conservationists!

In LITERACY we continued to explore the elements of story through water stories! By using planning templates, we mapped out story elements for original stories based on water problems that we learned about during our time as Water Conservationists. We then began our rough copies and can't wait to continue to develop and edit our stories next week. We also can't wait to share them with you at our Celebration of Learning!  

Our sight words next week are:
-are
-our
-happened
-every
-everything

In MATH we continued to develop our skills in subtraction with regrouping! We built more equations and story problems using base ten blocks. We remembered that we can't take the bottom number away without "regrouping" from the tens place! We are beginning to develop our ability to perform this skill using only the equation.

      

In SCIENCE we continued to work on our google slides for our Celebration of Learning! We are organizing our information into slides, along with pictures and videos, so that we can tach you all how to become Water Conservationists! We can't wait to share with you on Friday, March 13th at from 11-12:00!

In SOCIAL STUDIES we continued our exploration of The Blackfoot First Nation by exploring the legacy of residential schools on Canada's First Nation communities. We began by discussing how the European Settlers were very unkind to the First Nation's communities when they first came to Canada. The settlers believed that everyone should look, act, and talk just like them! We connected to this by sharing a time when someone made us feel like it was not ok to be ourselves, even though we know that everyone has the right to be who they are! We explained how the settlers opened residential schools to try to change the First Nations children. The children were taken from their families and told not to wear their special clothes or speak their own language ever again! Many of us speak a language other than English, so we were able to share how we would feel if we were forced to speak only English for the rest of our lives 😢 

We then read Shi-Shi-etko, by Nicola I. Campbell about a little girl saying goodbye to her Indigenous ways of knowing before moving to a residential school. We brainstormed things that we would want to hold on to if we were to be sent to a school like that, and created our own memory bags to keep those things forever. 

                 

Thanks for another amazing week :)
-Ms. Meier and Ms. McBride